Titan X vs 980ti (main use Blender Cycles/3D and video/image editing)

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I do minimal gaming, and by that I rarely play the most recent games. The Titan X has 12gb of ram, 3000 cuda cores and it costs +$1000 dollars. Its really expensive but I have the money for it. Ive been waiting for the 980ti to come out but and turns out its specs are inferior to the Titan with less cuda cores and ram. Quadros arent in the equation because they are way too expensive (or the titan z), and like Ive said I also do minimal gaming occasionally.

I know about AMD cards but they arent great to use with Blender or anything that needs CUDA. So my question is, should I go for the Titan X? Ive heard it needs a minimum of 8gb of ram to work with, but the recommended is 16gb, so probably I should buy more two sticks of 4gb for the Titan to be at its fully potentinal (I have no idea what happens if I mount it with my 8gb of system ram)

My mobo is a crappy ga 78lmt usb 3 (no SLI even), so will it affect the Titan X perfomance in any way? My CPU is a fx 8350.

As for my GPU, I have a gtx760 and its really slow rendering scenes. I kinda hope that with the Titans memory and performance I would be able to shorten it at least by 20/30%.

So should I just go for it? Main use will be for 3D rendering, and the 12gb sound really good. Thanks
 
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The 980 Ti Will most likely have similar performance but for a cheaper price tag. Titan always overvalues on the price tag I find. But that kind of VRam you can't get anywhere else so to really future proof, I'd say Titan X
 
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I see.
Im still going to get the extra 8gb, it isnt that expensive and would also help speed up things a little bit. As for psu I think my corsair cx600w will be enough. now my only problem is my motherboard ga 78lmt usb 3

For some reason I think it will affect the titans performance since its kinda old liek the pcix16 (not 3.0), but maybe not and Im wrong and its ok
 
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Hey. 8 GB is a huge bottleneck. 16 GB will also bottleneck. If you're getting the titan x then you need more ram otherwise you won't have a balanced system. What's your hard drive setup? That is probably already slowing you down enough already. I'd say go for a R9 290x 8GB model, and use the money saved to balance your system. If your drive is slowing you down it doesn't matter how fast your graphics card is.
 
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AMD cards are horrible for Blender.
Ive read that 16 is the recommend ram amount (and not some 46gb or something like that). I have a 1tb wd drive and honestly I dont see it slowing down the card, or my fx 8350, the mobo is the only thing Im kinda worried (but its not like its going to cut the performance by 80% or something)

Obliviously an ssd would be great but right now I dont have extra money for it.
 
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No. Let me explain. If you're only using 1 drive for said applications, you're bottlenecked because of it. You will have a faster workflow if you have a dedicated scratch drive, OS, media and export all separated. 16 GB is likely not enough. Since you think you need a titan x's 12 GB RAM then were talking big projects, 8 or 16 will likely not be enough. I can get to 27 GB Ram usage in premiere alone. Again, balanced system is the key. Lastly, Blender works with AMD cards. It uses OpenCL. (Use aQuadro instead then. They are superior in these kinds of applications).
 
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OpenCL is terrible when compared to cuda (just search it, amd is awful in blender, cuda works better and has much better support). For projects its not like I have 50 models on screen, but I would like to speed things up and do more complex stuff, wheres my 760 feels outdated and slow because it only has 1000 cuda cores and just 2gb of ram (and seeing some blender benchmarks confirms that)

Quadros are too expensive for my taste and I still do a bit of gaming. What about getting like a 100gb ssd to use for my renders with the titan? I could move those programs to that drive and probably it will work better. Problem is this mobo doesn't have SATA3 to take fully advance of ssd's speeds so I dont think that would help that much :/

thanks for the replies
 
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No they are not "supported", but there are hacks that I've found that allows it to utilize AMD cards. Get the Titan X, but again. You might need more RAM than 16, but it's a good start and you'll quickly see what you need and what you don't need. Having more RAM will speed up render and workflow because files won't have to load from your hard drive, which is around 100 times slower than RAM. Instead it'll pull from RAM directly. Scratch disk is what you should consider regardless which route you decide to take, because it will constantly write to it which if its your OS drive will really slow things down. Export drive is less important but media drive will be useful if you don't creat everything from scratch.
 
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I think its the best thing really. I want to upgrade my entire computer in the future, a good mobo etc.. but if I did it that now, I wouldn't have any money for the titan x and I really need it right now as a new pc wont matter if I dont have a good gpu. Ill probably get a 60gb ssd I will use just for exporting the render and its cache data,. Even if my mobo only has sata 2, I think that will help because Im not writing to the OS drive.

Any other input you may want to give me go ahead
 
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